Del.icio.us got rebranded as http://delicious.com which was enough to create a enough press about themselves to make them catch my attention again.
The design looks a little cleaner and sharper and the speed definitely seems faster. Other than that, I can’t really see anything that has changed. At least with the basic features that I use.
I have been a big fan of the concept of bookmarking sites like Delicious since I first tried using it back in 2005 but I never managed to get it organized enough to provide a nice mix of bookmarking interesting things to share with the world and bookmarking sites that I want to keep track of as a replacement to the browser’s own bookmarks. I use a lot of different computers throughout a normal day (easily 3 and sometimes 4 or 5) and would really like a nice, easy way to manage my bookmarks.
Foxmarks has worked well for me in the past but I would prefer something that makes it a little easier to keep my bookmarks separate from my wife’s.
I’m going to work on using Delicious as my bookmark system for a while and use a tag that I only use for sites that I really want to keep frequent track of. I think with the Delicious Bookmarks Sidebar (which I don’t think existed back when I tried in 2005), Delicious might actually have a decent chance of meeting my bookmarking needs and keeping my browser a little less cluttered.
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del.icio.us is still listed in the search engines, however it redirects to the new url.
don’t know why i hadn’t noticed this, i use it often enough. Either way good find.
Boy.. am I glad!!
It was seriously some real pain typing out that delicious with all those dots in it on a pc that had never accessed that site before !
I use del.icio.us extensively. That’s where I keep all of my bookmarks, rather than in the browser.
I use del.icio.us but I use it as part of Socialmarker.com. I haven’t really received a lot of traffic from there so now I only bookmark on there occasionally.
Delicious never worked for me.. however, it aint gonna hurt to bookmark there too, who knows.. might hit the popular spot someday
I never used Delicious as a bookmarking site because I got problem typing the site. But now that they have changed it to a dot com, I think it is easier now. Thanks for the heads up.